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What is transnational commercial law and harmonisation ( a best process to removes the
barriers inherent in national commercial transactions)
Harmonisation instrument : hard law and soft law
Benefits
Certainty
Important of certainty
New York Convention(intro)>> safeguards and facilitate the enforcement of arbitration
agreements, provides an extra measure of commercial security for the parties entering cross
border transactions. These aid in achieving certainty
CISG
reduce incentive to forum-shop because at least for the questions governed by it, constitutes
a uniform legal basis. This has highly positive effect on legal certainty
PICC, PECL
Solving similar issues with CISG but more flexible
Not contrast with other law, applied as a gap filler
UPC 600
brought uniformity to the letters of credit
benefits to seller and buyer
Model law
Example: Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
used as a blueprint for modernizing laws governing both commercial and non-
commercial law, as well as domestic and national legislation.
a tool specifically designed to present selected information on the interpretation and
application of the Model Law based on the large number of cases collected in the
database CLOUT
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